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The Idaho Prize 2008
LOST HORSE PRESS
is pleased to announce the winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry 2008 selected by M.L. Smoker
LUCIFER, A Hagiography by Philip Memmer
Lucifer, A Hagiography will be released by Lost Horse Press in February 2009.
Philip Memmer’s poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Poetry,
Poetry Northwest, Southern Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Epoch, Tar River
Poetry, and many others. His work has also appeared in several anthologies, including 180
More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins.
Memmer is the director of the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse, where he founded the Downtown Writer’s Center in 2001. He is the editor of Two
Rivers Review, associate editor for Tiger Bark Press, and the current poetry editor of the journal, Stone
Canoe.
Final judge, M.L. Smoker, belongs to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation in north-eastern Montana. Her family’s home is on Tabexa Wakpa (Frog Creek). She holds an MFA from the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was the recipient of the Richard Hugo Fellowship. She is also a graduate of Pepperdine University, and attended UCLA and the University of Colorado, where she was a Battrick Fellow. Her first collection of poems, Another
Attempt at Rescue, was published by Hanging Loose Press in the spring of 2005. Her poems have also appeared in Poems
Across the Big Sky, Shenendoah, South Dakota Review, and various other anthologies and collections. Her work has been translated for Acoma, an Italian literary journal published by the University of Rome. M.L. Smoker currently resides in Helena, Montana, where she works for the Office of Public Instruction, in the Indian Education Division.
2008 Idaho Prize Short List includes:
Troubled Tongues by Crystal Williams | Lake Oswego, Oregon
Boys Whistling Like Canaries by Jorn Ake | New York, New York
2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry Finalists include:
Kurosawa's Dog by Dennis Hinrichsen | Lansing, Michigan
The Natural Order of Things by Cathy Carlisi | Atlanta, Georgia
The Chapel of Each Day by Tim Skeen | Fresno, California
Beautiful in the Mouth by Keetje Kuipers | Missoula, Montana
Egoli Exhaustress by Matthew Gavin Frank | Buffalo Grove, Illinois
Dear Weather Ghost by Melissa Ginsburg | Iowa City, Iowa
Basin and Plateau by Ian Harris | Chicago, Illinois
The Promise of a Field by Jessica Grant Bundschuh | Mount Pleasant, North Carolina
Labor in Vain by Landon Godfrey | Rock Mountain, North Carolina
Lantern Puzzle by Ye Chun | Arlington, Virginia
The Empty Notebook by Susan Thomas | Marshfield, Vermont
Catch Light by Sarah O'Brien | Iowa City, Iowa
Folly by David Axelrod | La Grande, Oregon
Radioactive City by Richard Robbins | Mankato, Minnesota
Many thanks to all the participants of the 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry, and especially to Mandy Smoker, our final judge for 2008.
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